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Circa Date
circa 1887
Transcription
115
Vanishing Types in American Life [Ants/Auto]
Canadian Settlers. Woman crying, wiping tears with apron on acct [account] of summer frosts we’ll come to [poverty]
Trappers. Mill builders. [Trouts]. Farm makers, Potash slashing, [busing] buzzing bees, Browsing for cattle. Difficulties in first butter making. [Lucky/leeky] butter. Sugar making
Wis. [Wisconsin] game for food. [hay] marshes. house raising bees diff [difference] |o| [between] Scotch English Irish & Yankee settlers
Funerals. churches [Revivals], whims, vegetarians fire fighting
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Food
“What to take & How to take it”.
Take time & take it easy with (Solomon) bread flour meal
Animal food is greasy & unclean & wholly unnecessary
“Protein foods”, “nutritious, hygienic elements, carbohydrate matter” “aids to digestion” What does a mtneer [mountaineer] know about digestion more than a bear or tree such talk may about as well be addressed to a tree a bear or a daisy
“Squibb’s mixture for stomach troubles. Court plaster, medicine for colds. Pick & shovel. [rusty] [nails] etc” (Longley)
So also directions & descriptions are mostly too minute so much so as to cause mere nebulous bewilderment
Odds & ends of notches, peaklets, passes & “false passes”
“Portable stoves & 12 animals
Folding table, chairs hammocks & other et ceteras of camp luxuries”
with many animals 12
Vol [Volume] 1. No [Number] 6. Good photos
“From Fresno to Whitney” [“From Fresno to Mt. Whitney by Way of Roaring (or Cloudy) River”]
By Howard Longley
soon wished ⅔ [two-thirds] of luggage & most of animals were elsewhere”
See Vol. [Volume] No [Number] 6 Tuol Canon [Through the Tuolumne Cañon] By Price G [R. M. Price]
Date Occurred
1872-1874
Resource Identifier
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Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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